YiffyLeaks Discussion

Really? I dunno, for me the information that's been posted has been very useful in seeing into some people's character and motives and selfishness. I think it's been terribly useful and I kind of wish more people were this transparent normally instead of requiring a hacker to dig it up and put it out there. There's plenty of apparently unflattering information about me released in this stuff, but ironically I'm feeling a lot more safe and secure about it than a lot of others (esp Dragoneer) should, because even in private notes I carried myself honestly and diplomatically like I always do. I never put any secrets in FA notes, because I try not to ever HAVE secrets to begin with. I'm pretty open and honest.

I'm not interested in "moving on" until I feel that folks have had a chance to discuss the angles openly and get thoughts and notions off their chests. I'm not even sure what *I* personally make of it yet, so I'd like to discuss it until the horse is at least dying, if not cold stone dead.

But anyway, as far as breaking the law, I've been involved in gov't seizures and interruptions over online criminal activity, and NEVER in my experience has the gov't shut down a physical site or server or daemon or the like without FIRST arresting the responsible party for the system. From my understanding, Arcturus isn't the one who cracked an FA account and DL'd all the notes, he just got them from lulz.net and made an interface for browsing them more easily. Why the US DOJ or any other gov't agency would go after THAT site instead of the actual responsible party, and take down the site without apprehending the 'offender' is what doesn't make ANY sense. The data's loose, people have it on their hard drives and it's being hosted in untouchable locations to boot, so the data's out there and not going to disappear. Why would the gov't even TRY to contain it and control it, esp since it's such a small-time thing and not a commercial site and etc.? Fuck, you know how many times I've caught people trying to hack COMMERCIAL sites I've worked on, and the gov't has a typical response of "we might look into it if we get time or things get more severe, but please don't bother us with your trouble unless things get a lot worse". The gov't doesn't really have much desire to get involved with internet drama, even if someone cracked an admin account and stole/hosed the data on a site. It's happened to MUCH bigger sites and the gov't has done FAR LESS on those situations. So why this?